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How the f*ck did it get to be October already? sigh. Well, here is the Summertime Tunic. I finished this and took the picture over a week ago and I am just now getting this posted.
Pattern: Summertime tunic. A free pattern from Interweave. You can find it here.
Yarn: Elann sonata.
Needles: it’s been too long and I can’t remember. and i’m too lazy to check on Ravelry. How’s that for ya!
Started: a long time ago
Finished: a longer time ago
sigh. I’m losing the knit blogging mojo guys. Help! Maybe I need to change the way I do things here. hmmm. I’m just not into it so much anymore. I mean, I am knitting still, but the blogging about it is not as exciting as it once was. Why is this?
I signed up for Nablopomo. I am going to post something on Blatherskite every day for the month of November. I’ve actually been posting a picture a day, which has been a really fun (albeit timeconsuming) excercise. But my challenge will be to actually post written words everyday, as well. I may write about knitting over there again during that month. We’ll see. I need to figure out how to make this fun again!
October 2nd, 2007
First of all, I’m done knitting the Summertime Tunic. Yay! It’s blocking. It’s been blocking for a couple of days now. I’m sure it’s dry by now. I’ve been spending the past few days knitting icord for it. I’m using Den-M-Knit for the icord. I had to knit 4 yards of it! I finally finished that yesterday and washed and dried it. When I get some extra time I will finish the assembly of it and then take a picture of it on. Hoping it is cute! I hate spending time on something only for it to turn out crappily.
Next: I knitted a Knitted Cuddly for my niece’s 2nd birthday! Obviously I made the rabbit. The problem is that I don’t know how to put a face on it! How do you embroider a face on a stuffed animal? I tried the french knot that they give the directions for at the end of the pattern but have failed miserably each time. sigh. My bunny needs a face! Any advice?
Well, that’s it from this corner.
September 5th, 2007
Lately I’ve been obsessed with beads. For the past couple of weeks i’ve been trying to figure out a way to spin beaded yarn. I think I have found a way, but it’s kind of a long, tedious process. But this blog post isn’t about beaded yarn. This blog post is about knitting with wire! yes that’s right. I’ve been knitting with wire. And I have the gnarly blisters to prove it. Here is a bracelet I made over the weekend. I made it based on this article from Spun magazine. It’s super easy to do. It’s exactly as it sounds. For mine, I first strung the beads on my wire (24 guage). I used pink and black seed beads. Then I cast on 5 stitches using the backward loop method. Then I knit in garter, moving a bead up for each stitch, until the thing wrapped around my wrist. I didn’t have the clasp so I didn’t take the measurements of it into account, unfortunately. Next time I do this I will by a clasp first. You want to subtract the measurement of the clasp from the length of the bracelet.
I really had fun with this! And I like the way it looks, too. Definately going to play with this technique some more.
In other knitting news:
- Coachella is done. Blocked and finished. Total knitting time for this project? 3 days! You gotta love a quick knit. I don’t have any pictures yet but will get to that A.S.A.P. I’m not super sure how I like it. It’s kind of revealing. Maybe a bit too much so for me.
- After I finished Coachella I cast on for the Indigo Ripples skirt from IK Spring 2007. Depressingly, I realized that I had to make the largest size after taking measurments. So I cast on and knitted for a day on it. Then I decided to forget it. It’s too depressing for me to knit the largest size in this pattern. I am working hard at losign weight and when I do I won’t be able to wear it anyway so why put effort into it now? I think I will move this to the bottom of my queue for now until I get down to my goal weight.
That’s it for now. Stay tuned for Coachella pics.
July 31st, 2007
Hi! I wanted to pop in to show you what I’ve been working on this week. It’s a shawl from the book, Victorian Lace Today and it’s official title is, “Shoulder Shawl in Syrian Pattern” (page 130 if you have the book. But, then you probably already know what shawl I’m refering to). I’m using KnitPicks Shimmer in the Stained Glass colorway. I originally bought this to knit something for my mom but that didn’t work out. So far I’m really loving it. So easy to knit. Again, I don’t want to poke my eyes out, so that’s good. I’ve even got the pattern memorized! yay me! I’m going back and forth with the yarn, though. I am anal retentive about colors pooling. It seriously bothers me when I’m knitting something up. And I don’t know if I’m so hip on Knitpicks hand painted yarns. i hated the Morning Glory yarn I bought and everything I have made with it has turned out hideously ugly, in my opinion. But this shawl isn’t so bad, the more I look at it. It’s not horrible. I’ll probably wear it when I’m done (if I can find something to go with those colors).
About my last post, I kind of chuckled at the comments about how I said it took forever to knit the socks when it only took two weeks. Your right, two weeks really is nothing. I kind of thought about it and (I hate to say this) but I don’t know if I really like knitting socks. I know! It’s crazy! But every time I knit socks I feel kind of like it’s taking me forever to get the damn things done so I can get on with something else. I don’t know. I do love wearing hand knit socks so I don’t think will stop knitting them anytime soon.
June 21st, 2007
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve posted! I had a plan to take some pictures of my Victoran Lace Scarves that I have finished but I don’t know if that’s going to happen. Why you ask? It’s because of 1) This:
Ravelry! It’s the best thing ever for knitters. Boiled down, its a social networking site for the knitting community. Don’t you think it’s about time we had our very own? Not that the entire web doesn’t work for us, but Ravelry is perfect for us knitters. Not only can you connect with others with your interests in the knitting community but you can use it as a place to store all of your project info, your stash info, you knitting book library. The librarian in me is overjoyed! I love it! So go join up! And then add me to your friend list!
I think at this point they are inviting people on an e-mail list. So to sign up you have to give them your e-mail and then they will send you an invite.
2) I’m on vacation this week but I am having company over. My inlaws will be here sometime today so I am going to be very busy. In fact, I should be cleaning my house right now.
On that note, I better take off. Hope you all are doing well. See you soon!
May 5th, 2007
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